Internship: UPSHIFT Intern, Office of Innovation, 4 months (Remote and full time)

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UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.

Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.

And we never give up.

For every child.... Innovate

Background

UPSHIFT is a UNICEF global skill building solution. Based on best practices from non-formal education, experiential learning, and business education UPSHIFT is a learning journey combining workshops, mentorship, and an entrepreneurial challenge. Participants explore how to analyze and understand community challenges they deeply care about and to build products or services addressing them. At the final stage of the 25 hours course, all solutions are reviewed with the most promising ones receiving seed funding and further mentoring and learning support for their implementation. This inspires young people to keep dreaming up big ideas as they can see the chosen ones come to life.

UPSHIFT is currently being implemented in 45 countries with 3.2 million young people having completed over 65 million learning hours since UPSHIFT launched in 2014. This trend is growing exponentially and is being led one the one hand by an increase in number of countries launching UPSHIFT (one every 8 weeks over the past two years) as well as integration of UPSHIFT delivery into formal and non-formal education systems.

Of the 45 current UPSHIFT countries, 10 have already started to integrate UPSHIFT delivery into education systems, 15 are in discussions with Government counterparts to do so and a further 13 are also planning to follow suit. There is therefore a moment of opportunity for UNICEF’s Office of Innovation and Education teams to unite to support and accelerate the scale up of UPSHIFT through education systems.

As the custodian of the UPSHIFT the Office of Innovation (OoI) continues to engage daily with country offices implementing UPSHIFT and is developing subsequent tools. knowledge products and lessons learned to further support the UPSHIFT community of practice accelerate the delivery of results for children and young people globally.

How can you make a difference?

Main Duties / Responsibilities

• Research support: the candidate will support research in the identification of evidence on the effectiveness on UPSHIFT core programme pillar as well as landscape review for similar solutions in the development space.
• Data management support: the candidate will assist with collecting, analyzing, and summarizing UPSHIFT global data in close collaboration with the Office of Innovation MEELER team.
• Drafting of documents: the candidate will support with drafting of concept notes, scope of works for joint partnerships and presentations to donors and partners.
• Knowledge Management: the candidate will support the collection and curation country office documents (programme, evidence, communications, …)

• Scale Toolkit: the candidate will support the development of country office user journeys for launching UPSHIFT as well as integration of its delivery into education systems including through curation of core documents for each stage of the journey.

  Expected Deliverables

  Monthly report summarizing work and achievements.

• Completion of research pieces, presentations for partners as requested.

• Completed collection of UPSHIFT data from 45 counties with summarily analysis and synthetases submitted.
• Completion of the collection and indexing of country office UPSHIFT documents.
• Identification of curated list of support documents for each step of the Country Office launch and scale through education systems completed.

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

Essential Requirements/Educational Background

The candidate shall be enrolled in an undergraduate, graduate or Ph.D. degree programme, or have graduated within the past two years in at least one of the following areas or in a relevant field:

• Education sciences
• International Relations
• Sustainability Studies
• Innovation and/or Technology
• Development Studies
• Peace and Conflict Studies
• Dashboard development and knowledge Microsoft BI are strong assets.

Please access the full ToR and related information here TOR_UPSHIFT Intern.pdf

Education

Be enrolled in an undergraduate, graduate or Ph.D. degree programme or have graduated within the past two years, in the area that the internship will cover.

Experience

The candidate should have:

• Experience in conducting and presenting research findings.
• Experience in synthetizing complex documents.
• Experience in programme management is an asset.
• Experience with data analysis (especially through the use of a specialist software)
• Experience with using Microsoft Office package (word, excel, power point, notes, teams)
• The candidate must have good interpersonal skills (liaising with people of many different nationalities) and organizations skills

• The candidate must show commitment to the UNICEF core values of care, respect, integrity, trust, accountability, and sustainability. For more information on UNICEF core values, click here.

  Languages

Fluency in written and spoken English is required. Proficiency in any other UN languages is considered an asset (French, Russian, Arabic, Spanish, Chinese).

Payment

The eligible intern will receive a monthly stipend as a contribution towards their living expenses. The selected candidate is expected to work remotely if located outside the Office of Innovation duty station.

Additional information

Age: Interns must be at least 18 years

Visa: UNICEF is not responsible for obtaining any visas for internships. However, UNICEF can provide a Note Verbale to respective Consulates, to support the application of Visas.

Insurance: The selected candidate must provide proof of health/accident insurance plan that covers them in the country of the assignment and for the entire duration of the assignment. UNICEF will not be responsible for costs arising from accidents and/or illness incurred during on or off UNICEF premises.

Employment: There is no expectancy of employment at the end of the internship.

For every Child, you demonstrate...

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin everything we do and how we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: UNICEF Values

UNICEF competencies required for this post are... (1) Builds and maintains partnerships (2) Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical 3) Drive to achieve results for 4) Innovates and embraces change (5) Manages ambiguity and 6) Thinks and acts 7) Works collaboratively with others.

During the recruitment process, we test candidates following the competency framework. Familiarize yourself with our competency framework and its different levels: competency framework here.

UNICEF is here to serve the world’s most disadvantaged children and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, or any other personal characteristic. We offer a wide range of benefits to our staff, including paid parental leave, breastfeeding breaks and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the use of flexible working arrangements. UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF is committed to promote the protection and safeguarding of all children. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check.

Remarks:

UNICEF’s active commitment towards diversity and inclusion is critical to deliver the best results for children. For this position, eligible and suitable are encouraged to apply.

UNICEF appointments are subject to medical clearance. Issuance of a visa by the host country of the duty station, which will be facilitated by UNICEF, is required for IP positions. Appointments may also be subject to inoculation (vaccination) requirements, including against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). Government employees that are considered for employment with UNICEF are normally required to resign from their government before taking up an assignment with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the right to withdraw an offer of appointment, without compensation, if a visa or medical clearance is not obtained, or necessary inoculation requirements are not met, within a reasonable period for any reason.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.